A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

There are few things more frustrating than putting a load of hard work into your garden, only for it to be dug up by moles.

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An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Spring is a busy season for yard work—and it's also go-time for ground moles, who often take advantage of the soft, moist soil to start forming their underground tunnels. That means a ground mole ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur, helping ...

More than a quarter of our planet's natural "geomorphs"—animals such as beavers and hippos that, collectively, can reshape ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...